UNESCO Seattle City of Literature. Promoting and fostering what makes our city a City of Literature. DM us your awards & opps for local writers.
Seattle, WA
Joined October 2014
- Tweets1.7K
- Following515
- Followers1.1K
- Likes1.2K
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Book Review: “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change” by Angela Garbes (@agarbes @Harper_Wave @seacityoflit @EasternRegional)
christinesunflower.com/2023/…
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Q. What does @IowaCityofLit @RvkCityofLit @seacityoflit @EdinCityofLit and Odessa have in common?
A: we've got applications from people in each of these places! #CitiesofLit
News from the City of Literature—Introducing the PenPal Network. Our new initiative that will connect literary workers from different Cities of Literature. It's like catching up for a virtual coffee! Open for EOIs now. mailchi.mp/4f89c7b91718/intr…
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
You're invited! @seacityoflit is hosting Heidelberg-based author Claudia Klingenschmid for a week-long residency, and she wants to meet some Seattle folks! Stop by Victrola Coffee on 15th this Tuesday (5/16) from 4-6 p.m & say "hallo". More on Claudia at: claudiaklingenschmid.com/bio…
“convinced us to strip down to know nothing”
As part of my work as Civic Poet with @SeattleArts , I'm curating 30 days of Seattle poetry for @KUOW during #NationalPoetryMonth. Today's featured poet is Nadine Maestas. kuow.org/stories/nadine-maes…
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
In honor of #AsianAmericanPacificIslanderMonth, Seattle’s Civic Poet @shinyupai and @KUOW launched “Ten Thousand Things,” a new podcast focused on the ordinary objects that tell extraordinary stories of Asian Americans living in the Pacific Northwest: link.chtbl.com/WhiP9eul
ALT Ten Thousand Things: Artifacts of Asian American Life
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Applications to @SPLBuzz's Writers’ Room Residency are open. Intended to help individual writers with their projects while facilitating a supportive writing community, Writers’ Room Residents work in a variety of writing fields and genres: spl.org/hours-and-locations/…
ALT An empty work area below a latticework of diamond-patterned beams and windows. Write your masterpiece here!
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
@folioseattle friends - we have a new #GiveBig 5K challenge match! Donate before midnight tonight and double your impact. Thanks to all who helped us reach our 10K match. #reading #librarytwitter #bannedbooks
bit.ly/42lGGAN
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Funded writing residency opportunity from the Caselberg Trust, open to writers resident in any of the UNESCO Cities of Literature. Work on a piece of creative writing & foster connections w/writers in Aotearoa New Zealand. D/l 14th April caselbergtrust.org/news/case…
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
New release from @SwanIslePress:
Someone Speaks Your Name
Luis García Montero
Tr. by Katie King
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books… @UChicagoPress
swanislepress.com/?gs_booksh… @InstCervantes @lgm_com @KTKING @CervantesLondon @wwborders @Chicago_IC @seacityoflit @babelia_elpais @penguinrandom
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Our CityArtist Grant for Seattle-based individual artists/curators is open. This cycle funds literary, media/digital/film (incl. screenwriting), and visual artists. Info also available in Amharic, Chinese, Korean, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese: seattle.gov/arts/opportuniti…
ALT Image of a woman in red alongside text that says 'Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Grant; CityArtist 2024. CityArtist provides grants for Seattle-based individual artists/curators research, develop, and present ideas or ventures. The 2024 CityArtist cycle will fund artists operating the following disciplines: Literary, Media/Digital/Film (including Screenwriting), and Visual Arts. Due: May 9, 2023, 5pm (Pacific). Apply for up to $8,000. Contact Irene Gomez at 206-684-7310.
Spotlighting recent work by Sesttle Civic Poet @shinyupai in celebration of #WorldPoetryDay
My last installment of work with Khôra just published. Thanks to @LeighHereNow for publishing my work. corporealkhora.com/issue/20/…
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Happy #WorldPoetryDay everyone. Celebrate the changing season with a new poem by Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate: ow.ly/825U50NnCoV
Plum Tree Among The Skyscrapers is the first in a collection of works inspired by #BlossomWatch and the arrival of spring.
ALT A close-up of a comma butterfly perched on top of purple-stemmed plum blossom in bloom.
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Have you read literature laureate Rabindranath Tagore's 'Gitanjali'?
'Gitanjali' from 1910 is one of Tagore's most famous literary works. His poetry is felt to convey the peace of the soul in harmony with nature.
#WorldPoetryDay
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Happy #WorldPoetryDay!
Let's embrace the beauty & diversity of poetry in all its forms!
As we share these verses by Brazilian poet António Gonçalves Dias, whose 200th anniversary we celebrate this year, we invite you to share your favourite ones too.
on.unesco.org/Poetry
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
“I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.”
Love poems to the planets (which inspired Carl Sagan) themarginalian.org/2013/02/1… #WorldPoetryDay
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
21 March is #WorldPoetryDay!
Let's celebrate the power of #poetry to shake us from everyday life!
📝 on.unesco.org/Poetry
Happy #WorldPoetryDay!
The Gaia Papers includes original writing by @UNESCO cities of literature Exeter & Devon, Melbourne, Nottingham, Heidelberg, and Leeuwarden.
exetercityofliterature.com/c…
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Save the date! 📅 The CityArtist 2024 grant opens up in one week on Tuesday, March 28, at 8 a.m. (Pacific). This year's cycle is open to artists in literary, media/digital/film (including screenwriting), and visual arts.
Learn more: bit.ly/ca_grant
ALT A photo of Shoko Zoma Workshop next to the information about the CityArtist 2024 application. The text reads: CityArtist provides grants for Seattle-based individual artists/curators to research, develop, and present ideas or ventures. The 2024 CityArtist cycle will fund artists operating in the following disciplines: Literary, Media/Digital/Film (including Screenwriting), and Visual Arts.
Seattle City of Lit retweeted
Este evento es presentado en asociación por la @seacityoflit, #LaSala, @SeattleEscribe y la @SPLBuzz.
eventbrite.com/e/poetry-for-…
Great to see @seattletimes cover the creative economy. @VisitSeattle estimated the @awpwriter conference in Seattle generated $15 million for Seattle's local economy, with other tangible & intangible benefits for local writers, booksellers & presses #AWP23 seattletimes.com/entertainme…
